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Subject: Collector's Corner..Interesting Claim

Author: Steve B

Date: 03:44:56 08/06/05


the  Pocket Micro is a nifty little portable released under the CXG Chess King
Series

it was also released in a Deluxe Version and then by Mephisto

the seller makes this claim in the auction description

"The Chess-King pocket micro was the first chess computer launched on the market
in the nineteen eighties to be built into a computer pocket magnetic chess set.


i scowered my Pocket Micro's (all three versions) and searched in the manuals
boxes and computers themselves but could come up with no year of release

however my gut tells me this is wrong

i think the Mephisto Mobile board,which was also was built around a pocket
magnetic chess set was released earlier (it could take many different modules)

Mephisto Mobile board:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=5b5f&.dnm=4
148.jpg&.src=ph

the auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Chess-King-Pocket-size-computer-chess-set-with-manual
_W0QQitemZ5225494424QQcategoryZ1182QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Magnetic Regards
Steve



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